'Camp' Fire UPDATE Day 4 -11 Nov '18 113,000 Acres, 29 confirmed fatalities
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The fire just hit a little closer to home. The ex-husband of a friend of ours was just confirmed as a fatality and his son is still missing.
TL:DR Been wondering if even a little earlier notification might save some lives not only for this fire and the Napa fires but for other events such as tsunamis and flash floods. The cell phone alert system is a good start but there are places that don't have good cellular coverage or the infrastructure might be damaged by the event. Do you turn your cell phone off at night?
There is system that is used in the tornado belt that will alert you by county and by event. It is generally referred to as "weather radio" but can be used for any number of purposes. There are high power transmitters across the country that constantly transmit weather information by voice but can also send digital alert messages to vhf receivers designed to receive them. The receivers are generally in about the $35 range and can be set to only turn on when an alert is sent that matches the county it is programmed to receive. My goal is to start by getting receivers into as many locations as possible and improve the coverage into more rural communities. Maybe that few extra minutes of warning might save a life like it has in tornado country. Sorry for the soup box rant but there has to be a way to get more people alerted sooner to these kind of dangers.
In the olden days in tornado areas, (and I believe also in modern times) it came down to good 'ol ridiculously loud sirens.
I'm actually quite surprised that all mountain towns in the American West don't have a wildfire siren. It would be pretty easy to have at least one siren on each main street of such small towns, with two different tones, one as a "there's a fire nearby, voluntary evacuation is a good idea right now", ...and of course another, "GTFO ASAP!"
Wasn't it about 4 hours from ignition to "firestorm in Paradise"? I understand there was evacuation calls fairly early, but this thing was spreading at insane rates of speed.
It might have taken the equivalent of air raid sirens to get people up and moving, much as Mr. Saville mentioned. And even then, the small road out was impossible to change.
I think it was very hard to know the fire would take out the entire town within a couple hours. 1 and a half football fields a minute. Can’t even picture that speed.
Thanks you much FOR the info, Over in northern shores of Minnesota, We have bad fire season's also,I m former volunteer F.F. worked many brush fire's ,And family member woodland F.F. FOR 20 years we watch an appreciate the coverage..Be safe have great flights and rides ,OVER
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I am a Vietnam vet and I thank your children for knowing how much you and all of us vets love this country and have given so much to make them safe, and those who are continuing to do the same service..Thanks kids for remembering Veterans day.
I got choked up seeing your kids. How very special hearing the innocent voices of our future speak with respect and a little silliness. Thank you to all who served, especially my Dad and Son! I miss them so!
Thank you Juan for the updates! GBY!
Juan, your daughter made my eyes tear up there at the end, thank you to ALL veterans that have served this WONDERFUL country we live in. Thank you too Mr. Brown for your service also, -you have a great family there and are wonderful people, -thank you for the channel and all you do!
Happy Veterans Day Juan and all others who served our fabulous country! We may not all agree on every topic concerning our country, but I feel that we are ALL entitled to truth in our media.
Juan has shown us in a short time that it IS possible to provide that! By listening closely to your sources, by showing the appropriate amount of respect when warranted , not taking subject matter out of context (especially purposefully!), investigating BEFORE releasing a story and most importantly-caring enough about your fellow Americans to use critical thinking.
Thank you.
Well said. I firmly agree.
David E. Burden Thank you kindly!
Agreed!
He has set a very high standard!
Thank you Juan and all Veteran's for your services.Thanks for the update as we continue to watch all and any info,that's available.We have a long,long wait ahead,as we wait on the status of our beloved home in Magalia.Thanks again Juan,kudos to you and the rest of the Browne family,stay safe.
Thanks Juan. It's easy to get wrapped up in all the technical details of wildland fire and lose sight of the fact that the people who have been impacted by this fire are real people, with homes and families they care about, just like you. Thanks for putting that human element out there for all of us to understand. Here's hoping for calm winds and winter rains!
An update with dancing kids in the background. I like it. Every news outlet should do it.
Those are very special kids. For me, Juan is like a God-Son, and those two lovelies the Grandchildren. we have a solemn duty to create a better world for.
Thanks for the update Juan. The power line explanation was good, but having your children helping was priceless! Thank you for your service!
Thanks for the updates. Watching from Sonoma County where we were hammered by the Tubbs Fire in and around the great Santa Rosa area almost exactly one year ago. Fires have raved havoc on Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino counties and the entire state, sorry too many to list. The smoke and smell from the Camp Fire blanketed Sonoma County since Thursday the 8th bring back an eerie reminder of the devastation in Sonoma County. The number of structures and lives lost are very similar, absolutely horrible. Actually my aunt, uncle and cousins are evacuated in the Orville area right now. My sister went to Chico State and lived around that area for many year, definitely an area I’m familiar with. God bless everyone and thank you for you sacrifice to all the Veteran.
Juan, like you, I live in the middle of a forest. One thing I have done to enhance my bug-out procedures is to make a check list of everything I need to take with me. I have a dedicated notebook in which I list, room by room, what I would want to take with me. Items such as personal papers, financial records, credit cards, check book, computer backups, pictures, etc. That way I can go from room to room and in a very short time fill a box with what I want to take. When the fire is cresting the ridge behind you is not the time to be starting to make these decisions.
Your children are great Juan, they show us how great a parent you are. And thank you for what you do for us, the updates and for me, especially are the flights from the cockpit of your plane. I miss the trips up in the Maule aircraft when I worked at the plant. Blessings to you and yours.
Thank you for the update, Juan, my heart goes out to all involved. And thank you Pete and Julianne for the Veteran's Day observance--appreciate you both!
Thank you for your service Juan. I am watching this from Australia, we also know the horror of wild fires like these all too often. Please keep your wonderful wife and children safe! And thanks for the informative update.
Thanks for the update, we know we can count on you for timely, honest and accurate reports! Prayers to all affected by this terrible tragedy!
I've mentioned before my father flew with the AF active and reserve and the Cal Air Guard and retired as an AA Captain and check pilot on 74s and -10s. So you and he have some similar paths in life. After retirement he moved to Paradise and then back to SoCal. Very thankful he isn't living up there currently as I'm doubtful he would have made it out with his health issues.
Thank you for all you do in all your videos. Your children are a reflection of you and I'm certain you're proud of them.
JB I just love your channel. You’re a super daddy and your children are precious and so smart. Very precious indeed 🙏
Juan, thank you so much for all you do and your service. Bless you and your family. Be safe.
The best news crew in Northern California Thanks again Juan and your great Tech Support crew
First off, THANK YOU for your service, Juan! We get alot of C-130's coming over the house here - always makes every hair on my body stand at attention. What a POWERFUL aircraft! I could tell by the sound, long before I knew the specs. Must've been a thrill flying those! I know that wasn't the only thing you did, but THANK YOU just the same.
Praying that fire keeps it's distance from you and your family, brother. Made my heart sink seeing that smoke in the distance, via your drone. What an awful situation. Mother Nature is a mysterious entity - you guys haven't got rain in months, while the Northeast has got 5" of rain in less than 2 weeks, with more in the forecast. Wish we could ship 3/4's of it your way. Praying this menace comes to a stop quickly. RIP those it has taken from us.
Been watching the heavy wight the DC10 doing its amazing work in the Malibu area. Nothing but respect for those skilled brave pilots.
Dear God, Juan, I had no idea that fire was so close to your home! I will continue to keep you and your family especially in my prayers. I can't imagine you not in the hills of CA. You've given so many of us a new appreciation for the unspoiled, beautiful area in your state. The only bright side I can find is that reporting like yours may raise support for solving the problems that likely caused this disaster, preventing similar fires in the future. For your past and ongoing service to our country, thank you! They also serve who regularly post the truth on line. :) Happy Veterans Day!
California will probably always have fires. It's a high risk zone due to the climate, the terrain and the vegetation. The best we can do is conduct controlled burns in strategic areas to get rid of the high-risk fuel that threatens built-up areas.
@@dlwatibAnd of course there are plant and animal cycles that depend on regular fires for their long term survival. Such a curious thing that plants inparticular can evolve to exploit regular fire events, using the heat to burnaway an outer seed husk, then germinate with all the useful surrounding ash to feed them in early growth. I watched a documentary way back about parts of coastal Florida which has these kinds of plants. The area looks lovely and is thus popular for suburban building, but a fire expert explained the common plants in the region contain fluids which are not far removed from flammable oils in their nature. He described living in the area as basically like being right next to a petrochemical lake; when a fire passes through, the plants practically explode, spreading the fire, and their seeds, even further on the strong air currents. Mother nature is indifferent for our love of the aesthetically pleasing.
@@dlwatib they always have and they always will
Great update. Might be a good idea to thin the forest around your house, and install strategically located sprinklers, especially if you have a gravity fed water system. Also, it's always good to have the area under the eaves saturated with water. I have a house near the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, and we have been working on making it a defensible area. Takes lots of work, but totally worth it in my opinion. Thank you for your work.
I used to fight forest fires. You are correct. If you can store enough water it's amazing how much heat a mist wall of water will block.
@@Bryan-Hensley Is it possible to automate that kind of system so that it can activate on a detected heat threat without the occupants needing to be there, so they can evacuate? I guess as you say it would have to run on stored water though.
Thank you, Juan. As always...you are the best.
I remember subbing to your channel when you had less than 2,000. The amount of information and the quality of visual aids that you were packing into the early reservoir and dam videos were compelling. Great kids, keep up the amazing work and service you provide.
Stay safe, Juan. Thanks for your objective update.
It's very unfortunate how little news coverage this state emergency is receiving from the national media. If this was a FL hurricane or some other east coast disaster, they'd be all over it. Thanks for keeping us informed, Juan.
Juan I came to your channel because of your cb500x off roading. .sadly although( it's great vids you put out...) it's now two disasters that I've witnessed ...your coverage is amazing... I found out about the fires before our news in UK...off you!!!!!...hope all OK ..best wishes to all concerned in the fires..cheers from dave..
Thanks Dave!
Again Juan, thank you for touching base with us that care.
thanks to youJuan and your adorable children☺️
Thank you for your service Juan and all veterans. Thank you for another update. Hoping they soon get it contained with no further loss of life and that you guys get some rain. As far as the wife's BBQing, I see what you did there.. Run Toto run.
Stay safe. We had had a house fire once.....I can see the thoughts in your eyes. I'm there with ya. Be well always.
Thanks again for the timely update, Juan. As of now, both of my gf's homes in Magalia are safe, although the winds could change that in a moment. I drove to Cloverdale on the 101 north of Healdsburg today to buy a field and brush mower and the smoke from the Camp Creek fire was stifling even over there. Your satellite view clearly shows the extent of this event. Thanks for the perspective.
Wow, two girlfriends! Cool... ;-)
@@bob_frazier Heh. I see what you did there. Perhaps I should have been more ... explicit. Well, not too explicit, of course. This IS a family-friendly channel.
I continue to be appalled at all the destruction. Stay safe Juan.
Thanks again for keeping me updated, told my mom in to get out of Oroville and head to Sac area till its safe to go home
Salute to you, JB. Thank you for all you do, and have done.
Juan, thanks for your reports. Walter Cronkite would be proud of your professional presentation to the public of an extremely serious situation. We love your children. Take care, All of Canada is praying for the safety of our American friends. Maureen and Jim.
Juan thank you for your service and another great job
I have an aunt that lives in paradise. She lost here house. I can’t believe the the whole town was destroyed by the fire. Thanks for the update.
Our prayers go out to all affected. Stay safe Juan. Thanks for your continued updates.
Thank you for the update Juan. You should go fly those big tankers and show them how it's done!!! Thank you for your service.
Thank you Juan for your continued service
Juan, you bring up some thoughts that every resident in that area should be considering now - what they are going to do to bug out in case of a local fire. As evidenced by the Camp fire, you may not have a lot of time to begin to think about it when the fire is upon you. And just from your expressions, there's a lot of stress involved, even though the fire is 40 miles away. I've always thought that someone could make a decent business by performing inventories on houses, digitally storing all photographs and paintings (especially family photos), and having digital records stored in the cloud. There are plenty of sites that also have information for bug-out kits and such - you don't need to be a "prepper" to be ready. Stay safe!
Indeed, some of the prepper channels, whatever their politics or other opinions, have a lot of very useful information, eg. I've watched a fair few by TinHatRanch, such as:
th-cam.com/video/iWhOB-EB-4A/w-d-xo.html
This is a good reason to have a bomb shelter like the government suggested during the Cold War! Could have been a place to store valuables if one had to evacuate or a place to seek shelter should your escape route becomes blocked. Meh need to keep oxygen in the bunker In case the oxygen was used up from the fire. Who would have guessed that a bomb shelter would ever have a useful purpose.
@@kendaleklund7475 I suppose the down side of a proper shelter is cost, maintenance, possibly planning restrictions (how does it work in the US? Or is it very state-specific? In the UK one can barely move without requiring planning permission from the council wombles), power/air/water (all need to be self-contained), communications, but even if those can all be dealt with, the one thing that would concern me in a fire scenario is a tree or other object falling on the shelter and blocking the exit (hmm, hydraulic rams on outward opening doors then perhaps). I do like the idea of a shelter, but to be suitable for surviving fire it'd be quite some venture I reckon.
Btw, not specifically related to fire scenarios, but interesting nonetheless:
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Juan, I would fly with you any day...a true professional in every respect
Listening to you talk about the power line project your neighborhood is about to have I was reminded of a story I still chuckle about. When my son was 20 he had a 19 year-old girlfriend. One day while she was hanging out at our house we all heard a big BOOM! Then our lights flickered for a second before staying on. My son's girlfriend said, "What was that?!?" My son replied, "Oh, it was just a transformer blowing up in the next block." Her eyes got as big as saucers as she freaked out and she screamed, "But transformers aren't real! It's just a movie!" My son and I assured her that transformers are, indeed, real. Then we pointed to one on the utility pole in the alley beside our house. It was as if we'd just told her that the zombies were coming and bringing the vampires with them! My son and I still chuckle about that one.
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Thanks, Juan, for another update. I really enjoy when your kids have something to add to your report. You and your wife are obviously super parents! It's still smokey here in San Mateo. The weather report (via the National Weather Service) says the wind will change a little here and it shouldn't be quite as smokey. We shall see. The NWS is not known for it's accuracy! Stay safe and happy Veterans Day!
You can help by adding sprinkler systems to your roof, under eaves, verandah, shutters on the windows, mesh gutter guard, clearing all vegetation close to the home and clear flammables
I can see you have some future competition in the background and not only does he like to dance and love the camera but he's just about to take off in the flight like you. like father like son. How cute
same happened here in Victoria Australia it was called ash Wednesday lot of towns lost and people, put they got on with it rebuild. But you can still see where it burned to this day. Keep up there great up dates. ty
That smoke that showed in distance reminded me of the late 70's movie, "The Fog", which I believe was filmed in the "Half Moon Bay" area near San Francisco.
Great work Juan!
Thanks Juan for all you do!
I was wondering about the Blancolirio headquarters up in the trees. I also live in a fire zone. I like the trees and the shade, but this fire event has made me think about clearing it all away. Cal Fire has guidelines about defensible space, 50 back and so forth. Are you going to do additional fire mitigation work at the headquarters?
a minor amount. Already cleared 7000$ worth of trees...
Thank you Juan, it’s truly sad that so many deaths and loss of property and animals have occurred. I witnessed the damage a forest fire can do in Ruidoso, New Mexico some years back while I was there. It looked like a war zone. I only experienced that feeling once before when I walked around the Oklahoma City federal building bombing site.
I wish you and your family, as well as everybody affected, the very best. I pray for the safety of our brave firefighters, pilots, ground crews and first responders. A huge thanks to all.
Juan, thank you for your service to our Country. Stay safe.
Thank you for your service Juan, I hope you had some stress free fun moments over the Veterans holiday despite the local tragedy. I highly appreciate your disciplined rational approach to reporting Northern California special news issues like Orville and your reporting on fire air operations long before this event.
Our prayers are with you and others in California. I hope that the wind die down , the rains start, and the environmentalist Greenies, Figure out that brush and forest management is a necessary processes if you want to live in that area....... GOD BLESS.....
Good luck Juan hope all goes well for your family. Looking at the forest from the drone it's hard to imagine all of it being made safe!
Take care ! great work
Jaun- When I first heard about this, I knew an update was coming from you nearby. Would be nice to see how far you are from the devastation and I was expecting an X on the map. Keep the updates coming; sad but you are lightyears more informative than the MSM.
40 miles away.
Informative as always. I hope the fire doesn't cause you any problems.
Excellent reporting!
Thank you Juan,excellent as always ,And you and your wife have 2 wonderful children.You should be very proud of them as i'm sure you are ..Take care and be safe . Rob
Thank you for the great, informational, factual coverage. Awesome production.
I pray for your safety. Too bad you don't have a bunch of sprinklers all over Orville just for something like this.
I kinda wonder if you set up an parameter sprinker system and on top of your roof. If that would do any good.
Jaun, your updates are the best out there. Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Bruce from Central Oregon
Back in the 90's I took the stocking order in for the new Les Schwab Tire store in Paradise. What got my attention the most was the road from Chico to Paradise up the ridge that climbed to Paradise. Coming from a timber background, I knew that if a fire got started down in the valley, it would take no time at all to close that road. Paradise was a beautiful city and I really feel for the people there.............................Fact is I just saw where a Richard Brown was missing from there and the picture could have been him. We went to school together in Brookings, Oregon back in the early 60's.(The last I heard Richard lived in the Redding area)
Great job with the updates! Today Tuesday November 13 observing smoke particulates all the way in Arcata, CA .
Fires rolling towards Oroville as I write unfortunately... Stay Safe and Stay Tuned...
The fire apocalypse is Fast Approaching...
It appears PGE kicked this off again from downed high tension power lines 😕
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Mulch and leaves under decks, around walls, under shingles, etc. Sparks can get into nearly anything.
Thank you for the report.
Juan, can I get a hold of you somehow? I have a picture of our house on Sawmill Rd, totally destroyed, and not a single tree burned. Given your comment about this fire moving along the ground, I thought you might want to share the picture.
I totally get the allure of the urban wild-land interface. Paradise really was a paradise. But so was Whiskeytown, and Shasta, and even Santa Rosa. And I'm just deeply sorry for people who love their land so much they'll stay and risk it all. I've got it all wrong at my place too; slope: steep. aspect: southwest, fuel: heavy timber. I work on my defensible space, keep the yard green, prune limbs way up, thin my stand, and pile burn. (We've had some rain here in Oregon.)
Former fire fighter over on channel : Inventor Lee Wheelbarger says you can fireproof your home by putting sponges in the downspouts to plug them all up. Then water the top of your roof to get it wet and fill up the gutters all the way around. If you have one of those ceiling spinning vent things put mesh around it or something to keep any embers out. And try to have 30' of defensible space all around. If you do that before evacuating, you will hopefully have something to come back to.
@@recoveringsoul755 I have lots of roof vents and I noticed paper wasps have gotten in them and made nests... of paper! I need finer screen, as do most of us to prevent embers from flying in. Thanks for the info.
@@recoveringsoul755 The spinning vent sucks air out of the attic which means it sucks air into the eaves. Shut down the spinning vent.
@@DouglasKubler He said to cover the eaves with foil, and duct taping all around too. Check his channel for more Firewise prevention measures, like clay tile roofs or Metal roofs. He's live now again.
That adorable dancing boy is just TOO cute.
Be safe Juan. It looks like it's getting closer to you.
Stay safe Juan!!!
Thank you Juan for the update, your kids are super...
Happy Veterans Day to every Juan 🙂🇺🇸
Juan, that specification for the power lines is measured in KV (voltage) not KVA (power).
Thanks.
Juan, you could look at the transformer “can” on the pole outside your house and see whether it bears a stenciled number “10”, “15”, or “25” designating its kVA capacity. Most modern residential services these days are 200 amperes, which at 120 volts works out to 24000 VA or 24 KVA maximum.
Thanks Juan ! Stay safe🙏
Stay safe Juan! It is certainly a beautiful area to live in. Just not sure if the beauty outweighs the risk.
I agree with everyone here - your coverage of dangerous California events is excellent.
One small correction: Armistice Day, commemorated as Veterans' Day in the U.S., is tied to the WWI armistice which took place at 11 am of the 11th day of the 11 month of 1918. Hence Veterans' Day is always the 11th. The federal holiday adjoins a weekend so folks get a day off, but the Day is always the 11th.
Will Fastie As a child living in a Crown Colony in thr WestIndies, we used to sell POPPIES, for ARMISTICE DAY
Juan, thank you for your service to our great country! Thanks for the fire update, as usual better than we get from the mainstream.
Thankyou Juan, the piano music was a little peaceful blessing at the end.Love what you do for us.
The several things you mentioned that catches a house on fire could be fairly easy to fire proof. I'm suprised metal roofs aren't mandatory. California should look at houses in London England where fire proofing is in front mind while building. I'm sure it wouldn't protect the house in every case, but it would have to make a big difference. Stay safe out there. I love your videos
Here in the uk the building regs country wide are pretty strict on the fire front, its not so much about absolute fire resistance as it is about limiting the speed of the spread of any fire. Houses burning down slow enough and its both fight-able and es-capable, the great fire of london was one of many of the things that drove this kinda regulations, its practically unheard of for a fire any were here in the uk to take out more than a couple of adjoining properties. i find it kinda hard to grasp how in such fire prone areas you guys seam to have no rules in place to prevent - mitigate the effects of these mass events.
Its not even about making a house out of flammable materials, its about things like vent grills and penetrations + landscaping that really make the difference. You don't need every house to be fire proof to stop something like this, you just need enough of them half decently so to make it controllable. Equally i kinda don't get how in a town of 26,000 only 4,000 people will be involved in the fire fighting. Surely anyone and everyone is kinda best served by getting involved?
in some places in California have mandated non flammable roofs orange county did that about 17 years ago. However the law only applies when the roof has to be replaced. There are no laws requiring immediate replacement. So today some homes have metal or tile roofs while nearby homes don't.
Thanks for the update from blancolirio HQ
I know that if I lived out there I would build with concrete walls, metal shutters that I could close over the windows, and a metal roof. It might not save the house, but it's a start. Thank for your service. I was USN.
Greetings Juan...Thanks so much !! You discussed fire fuels, leaves etc...but what about the asphalt/composite shingles that burn so easily. One of the firefighters in a video, said many of the houses he saw burning were started by fires on the roof and the shingles were easily ignited by embers. perhaps steel roofing would help that situation? thanks Savanna ( ps..I'm a welder
and work with lots of materials that can burn or ignite.)
Savanna's WildNature Workshop have you ever watched, Mike Holmes from Canada? He is a HUGHE proponents of metal roofs, this being the main reason.
Wondering about interlocking ceramic (e.g. tile) roofs and how they compare with metal roofs. Ceramic tends to have a higher insulative value, doesn't "rust", and is just as fire resistant. While in the Midwest and the East, where I grew up and had training for wildland fires (my maternal grandfather was also a USFS fire warden), fires like out there in CA were and are rare, so it really was not something discussed that often. Of course, I live about 25 miles from where the Rocky Mount fire was in 2016, so they are not unheard of.
Douglas Needham yes good old ceramic roofs have been used ALLover EUROPE for centuries, as you see photos, all the roofs are orange/red, South America also BTW I saw at a home show some years ago, they are now making metal roofs that emulate those roofs, , looking at property in Florida, seen those metal roofs that look like tile.
Thank you for the update.
Never Forget.
Great reporting Juan. Sad to hear about all the damage and destruction, but humans are dumb. Time to kick the ass of environmentalists preventing the forests from being managed. Native Americans managed those forests for millennia and are partly responsible for a lot of the fertility and 'natural' old growth out West.
happy Veterans Day Juan
Juan, two questions: Shouldn't the forest be managed to a point where it can take a few random ignition sources per year and not get out of hand, and have you looked into how much has the increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere increased the density of the forest and the potential fuel load?
Here in Browns Valley, Ca. there have been Utility Services Tree Trimming crews clearing overgrowth from around power lines for about the last month.
Praying you guys get some rain reall soon!
That would help. I was in a 12-hour rain storm on the Northern California coast during the first week of October. It never traveled as far south as the SF Bay Area or very far inland. It looks like another drought year is shaping up for Northern California. We could get surprised in December, but who knows? The climate scientists are calling normal rainfall for this year at 50/50.
Thanks again for great coverage.
Happy Veteran's Day!
I love Pete's little photobomb dance, he is so darned cute. Great kids, you and Mom stay safe Juan. I used to live in the Bay Area and was a fire sprinkler designer. I used to dread fire season, that was '85-'89, it is so much worse now it makes me so sad to see this happen to such a beautiful part of the country and to such warm and friendly people.
Gary Bevis I have a cousin whom lives in VANCOUVER BC CA, I believe it was KELONA (sp), any how they had to run for their lives , they only had the clothes on their backs, the entire development burned out.They now live in a completely different area now.that was quite some years , now. God Bless.
@@flybyairplane3528 Hi, I live in Tacoma WA and we have been getting wildfire smoke from BC and WA fires for the last 3 summers in a row and the sky will be blocked red for weeks at a time...I hope these drought conditions end soon. Take care.
From what I can gather the PG&E "power line" that some have unofficially fingered as the cause of the Camp Fire is actually a high voltage power transmission line. These lines are most efficient when run on large steel towers above ground. PG&E has a lot of these lines running down from the Feather River system hydroelectric dams. Everyone in California benefits from clean electricity produced by these dams. True, PG&E must do a better job of maintaining these lines but we all must pay for it with every power bill.
Yes. I wonder if the tower had a structural failure in the winds...
blancolirio Tower failure, or even a failure of an insulator string at a tower that would drop the conductor that it was supporting close enough to earth to produce a phase-to-ground fault. If the protective relaying on the suspect line is sufficiently sophisticated, PG&E should be able to determine if that were the case-but if it’s the line coming from the Poe Powerhouse, the fact that the entire power plant is rated only 143 megawatts might mean that PG&E is protecting that line with the original electromechanical protective relays from the 1950s (which, if properly maintained, are completely capable of protecting the equipment even at their “advanced age”) and wouldn’t have the electrical forensic evidence needed to positively determine the initiating event.
Thanks Mikey!
Can you get any of the fire retradant those tankers drop and put it around your house?
great report as always. Just the facts.
A little bit of perspective. A square mile is 640 acres. This fire has burned almost 180 square miles. Too bad we couldn't harvest the timber and graze the grass before this happens.
It may be that the problem is that we DID harvest that forest. Please allow me to explain myself. We had large trees with lower limbs well above the reach of ground fires. We cut them down. What grew in their place are many small trees that are spaced too close together. They become stressed from drought and killed by insects, and then.... the inevitable finally happens. You can only delay fire so long - not eliminate it.
On Saturday I drove from Folsom to Sacramento, the visibility was less than a quarter mile.